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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 2019 / Active

Justin Brett Busby

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Justin Brett Busby is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, serving since 2019. He previously served on the Court of Appeals of Texas. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1973 · age 53
Tenure: Since 2019 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–
2019	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–
2021	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

Duke University	Public Policy Studies, International Affairs, with high honors	1995
Columbia University in the City of New York		1998

Judicial Record

In our data, Busby authored 124 published opinions for the court (2012–2026), plus 9 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: in the Interest of S.R., S.R. and B.R.S., Children (563 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 141 of these were attributed to Busby by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2014	in the Interest of S.R., S.R. and B.R.S., Children†	452 S.W.3d 351	563
2014	Tanglewood Homes Association, Inc. v. Stewart A. Feldman, Marla B. Feldman, and Miichael T. Kelly, Trustee†	436 S.W.3d 48	87
2014	Kenneth Lee Douds v. State†	434 S.W.3d 842	77
2013	Ralph O. Douglas v. Marisa A. Moffett and Kyle A. Thornton†	418 S.W.3d 336	71
2016	Ex parte Dupuy†	498 S.W.3d 220	57
2016	Trelltex, Inc. v. Intecx, L.L.C.†	494 S.W.3d 781	52
2016	Javara Price v. State†	502 S.W.3d 278	50
2016	In the Interest of K.S.†	492 S.W.3d 419	48
2013	University General Hospital LP and Ascension Physician Solutions, LLC v. Prexus Health Consultants, LLC and Prexus Health, LLC†	403 S.W.3d 547	48
2016	Sherman v. Boston†	486 S.W.3d 88	47
2013	Guillermo Garza D/B/A Wilhome Builders & Construction v. Jesse Cantu†	431 S.W.3d 96	45
2015	Vonda Barnhart v. Sylvia Morales and Luis Perez†	459 S.W.3d 733	44
2019	McAllen Hospitals, L.P. D/B/A McAllen Medical Center and South Texas Health Systems v. Yolanda Lopez, Sheryl Hamer, Elmer Deguzman and Richard Wecker†	576 S.W.3d 389	43
2014	Kenneth Ramone Dearborn, II v. State†	420 S.W.3d 366	41
2015	Ex parte Flores†	483 S.W.3d 632	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 141 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Texas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is Justin Brett Busby on?: Justin Brett Busby is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

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7 years on the Supreme Court of Texas. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).